# AscendEX loses $80M following ERC-20, BSC, Polygon hot wallet compromise
“# AscendEX loses $80M following ERC-20, BSC, Polygon hot wallet compromise ” Crypto trading platform AscendEX suffered a loss of $77.7 million in a hot wallet compromise that allowed hackers to access and transfer tokens hosted over the Ethereum (ETH), Binance Smart Chain (BSC) and Polygon (POLY) blockchains. Soon after realization, AscendEX proactively warned its…